After the update came in, there was an entry in What’s New that preprocessing has started on the update. Some time later, the What’s New window went blank. At that point I noticed that /mnt/downloads was gone.

Looks like mine rebooted and came back with default network settings which kinda sucks since I am not home to connect directly to it Will let you know how it looks when I get home. Hopefully the SDR settings were kept and it is receiving files.

One, use the instructions I provided in the Skylark 1.2 thread to manually update.
Two, if you remove the “zindex” file from /mnt/downloads/.cache, you will be able to get the OTA again when it goes round again, though that will be many hours.

Does anything in the system log look like its complaining about anything related to nand?

I downloaded the OTA file, uploaded it to the device and the update went through this time (did something for a few minutes, then rebooted). However, I now see a hotspot named Outernet but neither my PC nor my MAC can connect to it.
“Windows was unable to connect to Outernet” on PC and
"The Wi-Fi network “Outernet” could not be joined" on Mac.
Both these computers simply reject connecting to it and return to the home network.

I tried again and this time my PC wasn’t immediately rejecting Outernet, instead gave me the chance to go into the adapter config and change my PC to IP 10.0.0.10.
I then ssh’d to CHIP (10.0.0.1) and did what you said: deleted all content in /mnt/conf and rebooted.
I changed my PC back to using DHCP.
That worked and Outernet came back up with DHCP working and giving my PC a 10.x.x.x address.
I had to set the tuner back to Americas and I had to configure Wifi again to join my home network.
1.2 is now up and running!
The bug with the leaking sockets is gone. Constantly at 5, even after using the file browser to open same very full “News” folder.
I still can’t view news that have a title ending in question mark. Hopefully that is true only for old existing news.